2 Corinthians 11:7
Good News Translation
I did not charge you a thing when I preached the Good News of God to you; I humbled myself in order to make you important. Was that wrong of me?

New Revised Standard Version
Did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I proclaimed God’s good news to you free of charge?

Contemporary English Version
Was it wrong for me to lower myself and honor you by preaching God's message free of charge?

New American Bible
Did I make a mistake when I humbled myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely?

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2 Corinthians 10:1 Now I Paul, myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ: who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

2 Corinthians 12:13 For what is there that you have had less than the other churches but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury.

Acts 18:1-3 After these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth. . . .

Acts 20:34 You yourselves know. For such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished.

1 Corinthians 4:10-12 We are fools for Christs sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:6,12,14-18 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this? . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.

Context
Paul and the False Apostles
6For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge: but in all things we have been made manifest to you. 7Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely? 8I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for your ministry.…
Cross References
Acts 18:3
And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and wrought. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.)

Acts 20:33
I have not coveted any man's silver, gold or apparel, as

Romans 1:1
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God.

1 Corinthians 9:18
What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

2 Corinthians 2:12
And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ and a door was opened unto me in the Lord,

2 Corinthians 10:16
Yea, unto those places that are beyond you to preach the gospel: not to glory in another man's rule, in those things that are made ready to our hand.

2 Corinthians 12:13
For what is there that you have had less than the other churches but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury.

2 Corinthians 11:6
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